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Written for the jolt challenge at 30kisses. I think this is my shortest Naruto piece. Or maybe Misery Enjoys Company is . . . -ponders-

JOLT

There are things that make you jump, a figure walking past a darkened window, a shove while you're sleeping peacefully, things like that.

Note that this tends to happen when one is least expecting it, or else it doesn't make you jolt.

Now, there are plenty of things that make Shikamaru jolt. Ino crashing through his door after a particularly stressing day and assuming—correctly, of course—that he'll let her stay and watch a movie with him. Choji's sudden change in demeanor when someone dares to mention his weight. A smile from the elusive Gaara.

Kisses from Temari.

He'll be sitting on a quiet, secluded hill, contemplating his future, his past, his present, anythings and nothings. Then she'llbe there, with her auspicious blonde hair, and her piercing green eyes, and a mouth that never shuts up. All of a sudden his hill will be anything but quiet and secluded.

Her presence makes him jolt. She's boisterous and temperamental, so much so that she reminds Shikamaru heavily of Ino. He wonders sometimes if they aren't plotting against him. Perhaps they're going to rob him of his first-born.

Her eyes make him jolt. Those jade eyes are acute and intense, and Shikamaru doesn't like them. They're too much like his own mother's, which catch him at every lie. He can't escape them any more than he can run from his mother's heavy gaze.

Her lips make him jolt. He'll be letting his mind wander at the white fluff things float by, and suddenly there will be a pair of heavy lips on his own thin ones, and he will jump. She seems to live for it.

And then he'll flip her over onto her back, and he'll make her 'jolt.'